OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has responded to the backlash over his comments about how much RAM people need in their PCs.
The criticism from the gaming and tech community came after Altman's interview on the Cheeky Pint YouTube channel. In the interview, the CEO spoke about the worldwide DRAM shortage. "From a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer, and being used maybe 5% of the time. Like, you want maximum utilization in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply constrained environment. And somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that," he said (via IGN). Elon Musk also joined the backlash.
Altman then took to X/Twitter and said that his words were taken out of context and that he wants the world to have "tons of memory" and for people to put as much of it in their computers as they want. Altman reportedly briefly changed his name on X/Twitter to "Ram Altman."
